1990 AD to 1999 AD
Events listed relate to Canadian women with a few
extra items added to give the timeline perspective.

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EVENTS

1990

January 1990 -
Glenda Simms (1939- ) is
the 1st Black woman to become President of the Canadian Advisory
Council on the Status of Women and the 1st to be appointed to this
level of government.

February
1990 -Kim Campbell (1947- )is the 1st woman
federal Minister of Justice. She is also
Attorney-General.
Source: Club de Madrid Kim Campbell
http://www.clubmadrid.org
(accessed January 2006)

1990 - The federal Minister
of Defense establishes the Minister's Advisory Board on Women in the
Canadian Forces to monitor the progress of gender integration and
employment equity in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Source: National Defence and
the Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet. Online (Accessed March
2014) March 19 - 25, 1990 - IIFH World Women's Championships is held in Ottawa. Canada wins this 1st Women’s World Hockey
Championship.

April 1990 -
Correctional Services Canada publishes : Creating Choices: Report
of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women announced
sweeping changes on the treatment of female offenders in Canada.

May 3, 1990 - The Supreme Court of Canada is unanimous in its
decision that
Angelique Lyn Lavaleeof Winnipeg was acting in self defense when she shot
her husband to death after years of beatings. Women may now use
battered wife syndrome as Defence against a murder charge.This is too late for the 1911 court that
originally sentenced a woman to be hanged for killing her abusive
husband.
June 1990 - 1st
reunion of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) women (1951-1966) is held.
Source: A Brief History. RCAF Women.
www.rcafwomen.ca
1990 - Alexandra Bugailiskis
(1956- )
is the 1st person to receive the Canadian Foreign Service Officer of
the Year Award.

1990 - the Task Force on Barriers to women in the Public
Service is instigated.

1990 - Angela Chalmers (1963- )
wins double gold in 15,00 and 3,000 metre events in Commonwealth
Games. She is the first woman to win double gold in Track and Field
events.
Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame
www.sportshalloffame.mb.ca (accessed September 2011)

August 16, 1990 -Marion Loretta Reid (1929- ) is appointed the 37th Lieutenant Governor of Prince
Edward Island, the first woman to hold this position.

December 6, 1990is proclaimed as a National Day of Mourning and
Action on Violence Against Women.

December 9, 1990 -Pope John Paul canonizedMother Marie d'Youville, founder of the Sisters of
Charity (Grey Nuns). She is the first Canadian to become a saint.

1990 - Carol Lees refuses to fill out her census
form. She knew she spent at least 50 hours a week doing housework---
she simply could not fill the Canada
Census form saying she did not work!! She sends the
Prime Minister a bill for $95,843.76 for 3 years housework!
Source: Herstory: A Canadian Woman's Calendar 2000
(Silver anniversary edition) Coteau Books, 1999 Page 2.

1990 -The Minister of National Defense establishes the Minister's Advisory
Board on Women in the Canadian Forces to monitor the progress of
gender integration and employment equity in Canada's forces. Source "Women throughout Canadian military
history." in Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23
February 2005.

1990 -
A provincial court in Nova Scotia declares
the provincial medical Services Act as unconstitutional and Dr. Henry
Morgentaler is acquitted of all charges that had been laid the
previous year.Source : A History of Abortion in
Canada
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/history.html
(accessed July 30, 2003) 1990 - Jean Edmonds(1921- )
releases her federal government Report of
Task Force on Barriers to Women in the Public Service : Beneath the
Veneer.

1990 -
The federal government releases
The Report of Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women
: Creating
choices.
1990 -
The Federal government releases
The Report on child sex abuse: Reaching for solutions.

1990 -
The National Research Council, part of the federal government,
creates new science and engineering training programs for women.Source: Progress
towards equality of women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women
Canada. 1995.

1990 - The National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
releases a New Initiatives in Film, a program that provides
filmmaking opportunities for women of colour and the First Nations.
Source: Progress towards
equality of women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women Canada.
1995.

1990 - Canada makes changes in Canada's Food Guide and Canada's Guidelines
for Healthy Eating. The goal is to be simple, positive, clear,
adaptable and acceptable to consumers. The look of the guides changes
from a sun/circle to a rainbow.

1990 -
Rosella Bjornson(1947- )
is the first woman to be promoted to Captain with a major Canadian air
carrier. 1990 - Susan Nattrass, (1950-
) is the first woman
to be entered in a shotgun event in the Commonwealth
Games.

1990 - Mabel M. DeWare (1926- ), is appointed to the
Canadian Senate .

1990 - The Nova Scotia Library Association establishes the
Ann Connor Brimer Award to be given to a resident of Atlantic Canada
for a book published in Canada that has made an outstanding
contribution to Children's literature.

1990 -Ms. Adrienne McLennan becomes the 1st female unit commander of
Public Affairs for the Toronto Police Force. Source: Herstory: Milestones
in the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online
Accessed June 2011.

1990 -
The Mary Peck Arthritis Society Chair in
Rheumatology is established at the University of British Columbia,
names in honour of the woman who had worked so hard to form the
Canadian Arthritis Society.
Source: The history of Metropolitan Vancouver Hall of Fame
online (Accessed November 2012) :Pioneers every one by E.
Blanche Norcross (Burns and MacEachern Ltd, 1979)

1990 - Maureen Maloney
becomes the 1st woman Dean of a Law School in British
Columbia at the University of VictoriaDeaths 1990: 1990 - Died Dr Lotta Hitschmanova (1909-1990),
international humanitarian who had so many awards that there were 5
rows of ribbons representing the awards on her uniform!1990 -
Died Nan Shipley (1902-1990), author. March 28, 1990 - Died Beulah Vernon Bourns (1906-1990), nurse
and missionary with the United Church of Canada. June 6, 1990 - Died
Marianne Linnell (1914-1990), Vancouver politician was the only woman
on the committee for Canada's Centennial Commission. June 7, 1990 - Died Ester Isabelle Clark Wright (1895-1990),
Maritime academicAugust 18, 1990 - Died Isabel Janet Macneill / MacNeill (1908-1990),
the 1st woman in the
British Commonwealth to hold a command of a ship. October 26, 1990 - Died Winnifred Mary Stewart (1908-1990), a
nurse who conducted experimental research into new teaching methods
for disabled children, OC

1991

1991 - Louise Frechette(1946-
), is the 1st
Canadian woman ambassador to the United
Nations.1991 - The Canadian Broadcasting Act ensures employment
equity in the broadcasting system. Source: Progress towards equality of
women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women Canada. 1995.

April
2, 1991 - Rita
Margaret Johnston (1935- ) is the 1st woman to
serve as a provincial premier in Canada.Source:
British Columbia Federation of Labour.
http://bcfed.com/issues/women/history

1991 -The Women In Engineering and Science (WES) program is
introduced by the National
Research Council to provide support to women university students
pursuing careers in non-traditional areas of research in the fields
of engineering and science.

1991 - The Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women is founded.
Source: Progress towards equality of women in Canada
. Canada. Status of Women Canada. 1995.

1991 - The Economic Development for Canadian Aboriginal
Women is incorporated. Source: Progress towards equality
of women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women Canada. 1995.

1991 - The Canadian Census finds that women made
up 84% of elementary and kindergarten teachers, 51% of secondary
school teachers and 28% of university teachers.
1991 -
The Canadian census finds
10% of women in Canada hold a university degree, 22% hold a
post-secondary degree or diploma, 9% have acquired some
postsecondary education, 45% hold a high school diploma and 14% have
less than a grade nine education.

1991 -
The Canadian census finds that 84% of elementary and kindergarten
teachers are women, 51% of secondary school teachers are women and 28%
of university teachers are women.

October 28, 1991 - Nicole Dunsdon(1971- ) is crowned as
the last Miss Canada. The beauty pageant was cancelled a few months
later due to changes in public perception and acceptance of such
pageants.

November 1991 -
The Canadian Palliative Care Association is formally established as
a national charitable organization.
Source: Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
http://www.chpca.net (Accessed January 2011)

November 14, 1991 - Nellie J. Cournoyea (1940- ) is
the 1st aboriginal woman to lead a provincial territorial government
in Canada when she is elected Premier of the Northwest Territories.
Nellie J. Cournoyea,
Collections Canada. National Library of Canada, (Accessed 2006).

1991 - House of Commons Bill C- 43, an amendment to the Criminal Code of
Canada relating to abortion is defeated in the Senate of Canada in a
tie vote. Abortion will now be treated like any other medical
procedure.
Source : A History of Abortion in
Canada
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/history.html
(accessed July 30, 2003)

1991 - Myriam Bedard(1969- )
is the 1st Canadian to win a World Cup in Biathlon

1991 - Lieutenant Anne Reiffenstein (née Proctor),
Lieutenant Holly Brown and Captain Linda Shrum
graduate from artillery training in the Canadian Forces as the 1st
women officers in combat arms.
Source "Women throughout Canadian military history." in
Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23 February 2005.

1991 - HMCS Nipigon is the 1st Canadian mixed-gender
warship to participate in exercises with Nato's Standing Naval
Forces Atlantic. Source: National Defence and
the Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet. Online (Accessed March
2014)

1991 - Dormer Ellis (1925- ) is the 1st woman to be
awarded the University of Toronto Engineering alumni gold medal.
Source
The Toronto Business and Processional Women’s Club. Online Accessed
February 2013.

1991 - The New Democratic Party of British Columbia institutes the
1st
stand-alone Ministry of Women's Equality in Canada. Penny Priddy
is the 1st appointed Minister to hold this position.
Source: British
Columbia Federation of Labour.
http://bcfed.com/issues/women/history

Deaths 1991:
1991 - Died Fern Blodgett Sunde (1918-1991), June 13, 1941
became the 1st Canadian woman to serve in the Merchant Marines.
1991 - Died Joyce Margaret McCulloch Booker (1921-1991), played
piano in the Brookers Bombshells, a leading dance band in Manitoba.
1991 - Died Lily I. Sherizen (1906-1991), one of the earliest
Jewish women lawyers in Ontario.
January 18, 1991 - Died Margaret Paton Hyndman (1901?-1991),
1st Toronto woman to be
appointed King's Council and second in the British Empire.
January 26, 1991 - Died
Mary Lile Benham (1914-1991), author and historian
April 1991 - Died Katherine Lucy Ball (1904-1991), librarian
and professor at the University of Toronto. April 9, 1992 - Died
Lydia Emélie Gruchy (1894-1992), in 1936 she became 1st woman
ordained as a minister in the United Church of Canada
April 28, 1991 - Died Clara 'Dolly' Scott
(1919-1991), sideshow personality
May 9, 1991 - Died
Rena Lasnier (1910-1991), poetJuly 10, 1991 -Died
Grace MacInnis (1905-1991), social activist and politician. August 5, 1991 - Died Jagdish Kaur Singh (1912-1991),
BusinesswomanAugust 11, 1991 - Died Dorothy Somerset (1900-1991), theatre
director. August 23, 1991 - Died Phyllis Georgie Haslam (1913-1991)
social activist with Elizabeth Fry Society who worked with female
prisoners.
September 23, 1991 - Died Kathleen Coburn (1905-1991), professor at Victoria College editor, and order of Canada. October 29, 1991 - Died Sherry Hawco Delanty
(1964-1991), Canadian Olympian in gymnastics.
December 29, 1991 - Died Mary Elizabeth Kinnear
(1898-1991), member of Senate of Canada 1967-1973. December 31, 1991 - Died Nina Cohn (1907-1991) volunteer.
Woman of the Century (1867-1967) for Nova Scotia & National Council
of Jewish Women.

1992 - the concept of consent becomes legally
defined for the 1st time in the Criminal Code Provisions on Sexual
Assault.

1992 - The Public Service Reform Act legislates employment equity for the
federal public service.January 3, 1992 - Miss Canada beauty pageant is scrapped
after 45 years. There was a recession and times had changed with
feminists calling for the end of the pageant. Nicole Dunsdon(1971- ) was the last Miss Canada
having been crowned October 28, 1991. Source: ON THIS DAY Jan 3. Today in Canadian History
www1.sympatico/cg-bin/on-this-day Accessed Sept 2013.

January 11, 1992 - Rita Johnston (1935- ), the
1st woman to serve as a provincial premier in Canada resigns and
leaves politics after her Social Credit Party loses the election in
October 1991.

April 22, 1992 -
a brief, violent confrontation took place at the Kingston, Ontario’s
Prison for Women (P4W) between 6 inmates and several of the
correctional staff. The inmates were moved to the segregation unit
and had criminal charges laid against them.
Source: The night Raid at Kingston’s Prison for Women by
Sierra Baquie. Section15.ca (Accessed 2009)

1992 -Corporal Marlene Shillingford
becomes the 1st woman selected to join the Snowbirds, the Canadian
Air Force's aerobatic demonstration flying team. In 1993-94 show
season she serves as a technician. Source:
National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet.
Online (Accessed March 2014)

September 23, 1992 -
Manon
Rhéaume (1972- ) is the 1st
woman to play hockey professionally.She is a goalie with the Tampa Bay
Lightening of the National Hockey League.

1992 - The
second International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World
Championships is held in Ottawa, Ontario with Canada playing the USA
and winning the gold medal.

November 17, 1992 - the International Olympic
Committee announces that it will include women's ice hockey
ad a full medal sport beginning in 2002. Source:www.femalehockey.caonline accessed January 2013.

1993 –The United
Nations World Conference on Human Rights is Held in Vienna,
Austria. Women prepare the Vienna Declaration stating that human
rights of women and the girl-child are an inalienable, integral and
indivisible part of the Universal Human Rights.

1993 -The Canada Labour Code Part lll gives pregnant
or nursing women the right to ask employers to modify her job or
reassign her to another position. Source: Progress towards equality of
women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women Canada. 1995.

1993 -
Beth Underhill,(1962- ) an equestrian jumper and winner of
a double sliver medal at the Pan American Game and member of
the Barcelona, Spain Olympic silver medal team
team,becomes the first Canadian woman
to win the World League.
January 1993 - Kim Campbell( 1947-
) is appointed Minister of National Defence and Minister of Veteran affairs. She is the firs woman to be
Minister of Defence of a NATO country. Source:
Club de Madrid Kim Campbell www.clubmadrid.org
(accessed January 2006)

February 1993 -Maryka Omastu (1948- ) becomes
the 1st East Asian Canadian Judge when she is appointed
to the Ontario Court of Justice.
Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada
online accessed January 2013.:
1993 - Cornelia Wieman (1963- )
is Canada's 1st female Aboriginal Psychiatrist..
Source: Canadian Who’s Who, Toronto, University of Toronto
Press, 2003)

January 1993 - k.d. Lang (1961- ) is named best new adult
contemporary artist at the American Music Awards.

March 29, 1993 -Catherine Callbeck(1939-
) is the
1st woman to be elected as a provincial
premierwhen she wins the election in Prince Edward
Island.

November 4, 1993 -Sheila Copps
(1952- ) isthe 1st woman appointed to federal cabinet as Deputy
Prime Minister through to June
10, 1997.

1993 - Joyce Fairborn(1939- )
is appointed the 1st woman Government Leader of the Canadian Senate.
Source:Senate of Canada.on line accessed June 2008

1993 -
The Canadian Panel on Violence Against W0men published the Community Kit on Violence Against Women. Source: Progress
towards equality of women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women
Canada. 1995.

1993 - Dr. Jean Augustine
(1937- ) isthe 1st African Canadian woman elected to the
Parliament of Canada. Source: Senate of Canada on
line accessed June 20081993 - Lieutenant Leanne Crowe of the Canadian Navy
is the 1st woman to qualify as a clearance
officer and the first woman to serve as Commanding officer of the
Experimental Diving Unit. Source "Women throughout Canadian military history." in
Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23 February 2005.

1993 - Tanya Dubincoff (1969-
) is the 1st Canadian woman to be a
world champion in track cycling

1993 - Canada Post
issues a series of stamps
honouring two centennials the founding of the National Office
of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), and of the
National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC). It is also the 50th
anniversary of the first federally appointed woman judge in Canada.
Honouring these events, four stamps are being issued depicting
outstanding Canadian women: Adelaide Hoodless, Helen Alice Kinnear,
Marie-Joséphine Gérin-Lajoie and Pitseolak. Source : Canada Post , Collectiong
stamps
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020117/020117030401_e.html

1993 - The 1st junior (under 18) National
Championship in women's hockey is held in Montreal, Quebec. Team
Ontario won the gold medal. Source:
www.femalehockey.ca online
accessed January 2013.

1993 - Kate Pace Lindsay(1967- ) is Female athlete of the
year in Ontario and for Canada
Source: The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame Online Accessed June 2013.

1993 - for the 1st time ever, women's ice
hockey is included at the US Olympic Festival ins San Antonio,
Texas. The U.S. Team defeats Canada in a two -game series. Source:
www.femalehckey.ca accessed
January 2-13.

1994 -The Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) grants a license to the
Canadian specialty woman's television station, the Womens' Television
Network (WTN)
Source: Progress towards equality of women in Canada . Canada.
Status of Women Canada. 1995.

1994 -
Lenna
Bradbum, a graduate of the University of Toronto with a degree in
criminology and a masters in public administration,is
appointedCanada's 1st woman police chief, in
Guelph, Ontario.
Source: Canadian
Chronology
Http://tdi.uregina.ca/~maguirec/chron.html (accessed April 28,
2003)

1994 -
The Graduate Collaborative Program in Women's Studies is established
at the University of Toronto.
Source A Chronology of the development of
women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/PAR-L/chronology1.htm (accessed April 28, 2003.
)

1994 - Wendy Clay is the 1st woman promoted to the rank of
Major-General in the Canadian Forces.
Source "Women throughout Canadian military history." in
Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23 February 2005.

1994 - Angela Enright (1947- )
is the 1st woman
to be elected president of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society
Source: Herstory: the Canadian women’s Calendar 2008.
(Saskatoon women’s calendar collective/Coteau Books, 2007)

1994 - Maureen Kempston Durkes
(1948- ) becomes the 1st woman president
and General Manager of General Motors Canada

1994 -
The Giller Prize in literature is established and named forDoris Giller (1931-1993)

April 26, 1994
-Officials use excessive force quelling a disturbance
at Prison for Women, Kingston, Ontario.( http://www.elizabethfry.ca/ )a
video camera captured images of an all-male Institutional Emergency
Response Team (TERT) storming the cells of sleeping inmates in
Kingston’s women’s prison P4W. The TERT shackled the defenseless
women, forced them to the floor and stripped them naked, one woman
at a time. They stopped only for meals and smoke breaks. The raid
lased six hours.
Source: The night Raid at Kingston’s Prison for Women by
Sierra Baquie. Section15.ca (Accessed 2009)

1994 - Cara Inksater is the 1st woman fire
fighter in Vancouver. According to Cara after 18 months the teasing
stopped and she began to really enjoy her job. In 200 she left the
job to raise her children. source: "Fit to be a
firefighter" , The Vancouver Sun, April 2, 2006 online
accessed June 2013.

1994 - Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893)
is designated a National
Historic Person by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

1994 - Lillian McGregor (1924-2012)
is the 1st Elder in residence at the University of Toronto and
lectured on the seven sacred teachings of the elders: wisdom,
courage, truth, honesty, love, humility and respect.
Source: “She helped natives survive the city.” By Noreen Shanahan.
The Globe and Mail May 22, 2012.

1995 - Bill C-127 changes the Criminal Code of Canada so that intoxication is
no longer accepted as a defense in cases of sexual assault and
battery. Source: Canada Women's
Foundation. History of the women's movement: selected moments ofimportance in the history of Canadian women , 2004

February 1995 -
the CBC
television programme fifth estate aired, The Ultimate
Response, which showed for the 1st time the
circumstances of the all-male Institutional Emergency Response Team
(TERT) storming cells of sleeping women inmates at the infamous
women’s prison P4W, Kingston, Ontario. 2 days later Mme. Justice
Louise Arbour led a Commission of Inquiry into the actions of TERT.
Source: The night Raid at Kingston’s Prison for Women by
Sierra Baquie. Section15.ca (Accessed 2009)

July 17, 1995 -
Christine Silverberg
becomes the 1st woman police chief of a
major Canadian city, Calgary,
Alberta.
June 23, 1995 - Judy Gingell (1946-
) is the 1st Aboriginal to be Commissioner of the Yukon.

September 4-15, 1995
- The 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.It is the 2nd UN conference and it has been 20 years since the UN declared the
international year of the women.
1995 -
A Canadian Supreme Court ruling deems Child support payments
are taxable income. Source: Women in History: A
timeline by Kirsten Smith Postmedia News March 3, 2011.

1995 -
The Institute for the advancement of Aboriginal Women is
founded by Muriel Stanley Venne.
Source: Herstory 2008 the Canadian Women’s Calendar (Coteau
Books, 2007)

1995 -
The Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
issues a indecisive Report.

1995 - Setting the
stage for the next century: the federal play for gender equity,
is published by the Canadian government. Source
Canada Women's Foundation. History of the women's movement:
selected moments ofimportance in the history of Canadian women
, 2004 http://cdnwomen.org.

1995 - The average women's salary is 75% of men's salaries.
October 14, 1995
-Alexa McDonough(1944- ) is elected leader of the federal New
Democratic Party.

1995 - The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell
(1947- ) is appointed Canadian Council for Los
Angeles 1996-2000.

1995 - 521,000 Canadians participate in their sport
of 5-pin bowling on a regular basis and 63% of participants are women.
Source: 5-pin Bowline History http://www.cvnet.net/burnstd/ located May 2005.

1995 - Filmmaker Mina Shum (1966- ) wins a prize
for Best First Film at the Berlin International Film Festival with her
work Double Happiness.Source: Canadian Chinese
National Council. Moments ofChinese Canadian History.
http://www.ccnc.ca/toronto/history/timeline.html (accessedJ uly 7,
2003)

1995 -
The Collaborative Program in Women's
Studies at the Master's Level is created at the University of
Ottawa,The third post graduate established program in this
area it is the first Bilingual program in the field.
Source A Chronology of the development of
women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/PAR-L/chronology1.htm (accessed April 28, 2003.
)

1995 - Dr Emily Stowe(1831-1903), the 1st woman to practice medicine in Canada is
designated a National Historic Person by the Historic Sites and
Monuments Board. A plaque is erected in 1997 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

1995 - Dr Jenny Trout (1841-1921),the 1st woman licensed doctor in Canada is
declared a National Historic Person by the Historic Sites and
Monuments Board. A plaque is erected in 1999, in Kingston, Ontario.

1995 - Portia May White(1911-1968), a
renouned singer is designated a National Historic Person by the
Historic Sites and Monument Board. An historic plaque
is erected in 1997 in Truro, Nova Scotia.1995 - Jessie Louise Beattie (1896-1895) poet and novelist with over 20
books to her credit, is inducted intof the City of Cambridge
(Ontario) Hall of Fame.

February 28, 1996 - Canadian singer
Alanis Morissette wins four Grammies...Best Rock Song, Best
Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Album and Album of the
year. This is a 1st for Canadian entertainers.
1996 - The Canadian Human Rights Act is
amended to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground for
discrimination. Source Canada Women's
Foundation. History of the women's movement: selected moments ofimportance in the history of Canadian women , 2004
http://cdnwomen.org.

July 6, 1996 - Canada Post issues two commemorative stamps in
celebration of the lives of Ethel Catherwood (1908-1987) and Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld(1903-1969), who were members of the "Matchless
Six" women's team, and gold medal winners, in the 1928 Olympic Games.

1996 - Lieutenant Commander Wafa Dagbbagh
is the 1st Canadian Muslim woman to wear the hihab in the
Canadian Armed Forces. Source:
National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet. Online
(Accessed March 2014)

1996 - Elizabeth Parr-Johnston (1939- )
becomes first woman president of the University of New
Brunswick.
Sources: Canadian Who’s Who (University of Toronto, 2006

1996 - Wafa Dabbagh(1962-2012) is the
1st woman in the Canadian Armed services to wear a religeous head
covering.
Sources: Various obituaries from several different publications.
1996 -
There are 41 undergrad and 16 graduate programs and research
institutes in Canada in the field of Women's studies. Source A Chronology of the development of
women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/PAR-L/chronology1.htm (accessed April 28, 2003.
)
1996 - Statistics Canada included trial questions about
housework in the long census forms sent to Canadian households.
Being included in the long form did not fully get a the question of
unpaid housework done by women but it was a start.
Source: Herstory: A Canadian Women's Calendar 2000 (Silver
anniversary edition) Coteau Books, 1999 page 12.

1996 - From 1936 to 1996 only 25% of the
Governor's General Awards for literature were given to women.
Source: Herstory: A Canadian Women's Calendar 2000
(Silver Anniversary Edition) Coteau Books, 1999 page 98.

1996 -
Sarah McLachlan (1968- )founds an all-femalemusic festival called Lilith Fair,which toured widely for
three years. Because of this initiative and her efforts to advance the
careers of women in the music business, Sarah McLachlan received the
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998.The fairs raised
over 1 million dollars for women's causes. Source: The
Kids Book of Canadian Firsts by Valerie Wyatt (Toronto : Kids Can
Press, 2001) pg.39. 1996 - Leilani Muir(1944- )
is awarded $75,000.00 damages for pain and suffering of an
illegal sterilization under the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act
(effective 1928-1972) Source: Herstory: A
Canadian Woman's Calendar 2000 Page 72.

1996 - Gail Greenough (1960- ) is the
1st Canadian and 1st woman to win the world equestrian show
jumping championships. 1996 - Winnie Roach Leuszler(1926-2004) internationally
acclaimed swimmer and the 1st Canadian woman to swim the English
Channel receives the Order of Ontario and is inducted into the Ontario
Swimming Hall of Fame.

1996 - Bev Busson (1951- ) is promoted to the rank of Superintendent in the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, the
highest ranking woman in the RCMP at that time. Source: Senior executives, RCMP. Biography: Beverley (Bev.) Busson.
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/exec_bios/busson_e Also available in
French. (Accessed June 23, 2008)

1996 -Kim Campbell (1947- )
Publishes her Political Memoirs Time and Chance (Doubleday)

1997 - A
bridge connecting Prince Edward Island to the mainland is opened.

1997 - The Honorable Madam
Justice Micheline Rawlins,(1951 - )
the 1st Black woman appointed the bench in
Ontario received the African Canadian Achievement Award.
Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada
online accessed January 2013.:

September 26, 1997 -Canada Post issues a commemorative stamp to
honour Martha Black(1866-1957) an
extraordinary citizen and first lady of Canada's Yukon Territories.

1997 - The Historic Sites and Monuments Board erects an historic Plaque in Truro,
Nova Scotia, for National Historic Person. Dr. Emily Stowe,(1831-1903) the first woman to practice medicine
in Canada.

October 31, 1997 - Violet Palmer becomes the 1st woman
to referee an NBA game Grizzles vs Dallas Mavericks in Vancouver,
British Columbia.

November 26, 1997 - Thelma Chalifoux begins her term as
the 1st Métis woman to sit in the Senate of Canada.

1997 - The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada erects an historic plaque in
Truro, Nova Scotia, for National Historic Person, Portia May
White, (1911-1968), a renowned singer.

1997 - Grand Valley Institution for Women opens in
Kitchener, Ontario. The institution allows incarserated women to
live with their children under five years of age in detached
buildings known as cottages.

1997 - Martha Billes now has majority control of Canadian Tire, having bought out her
brothers who wanted to sell.
Source: Women in History: A timeline
by Kirsten Smith Postmedia News March 3, 2011.

1997 - Marge Linden (1935-3013) is
inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
the 1st woman all night disc jockey on Montreal Radio and the 1st
woman to appear in regular TV programs in Montreal.
Source: “Broadcast pioneer charmed all she met…” by Susan Ferrier
MacKay and Allison Lawlor. The Globe and Mail May 4, 2013.

1997 - A Karen Kain Barbie Doll is produced to
commemorate her farewell tour.

Deaths 1997:
1997 - Died Cecile Elaine Eustance Smith Hedstrom
(1908-1997) 1st Canadian to win a world figure skating championship
medal.
1997 - Died Malvina Marjorie Bolus (1906-1997), writer, editor
and novelist. 1997 - Died
Thelma Jo Walmsley (1918- 1997), played
for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
February 10, 1997 - Died Eleanor Boyce ( -1997)
one of the first women school inspectors in Manitoba. February 17, 1997 - Died Lois Catherine Marshall (1924-1997). International opera singer. April 11, 1997 - Died Muriel McQueen Fergusson, (1899-1997), member of
the Canadian Senate.May 9, 1997 - Died Rina Lasnier (1915-1997) award winning
poet.
August 11, 1997 - Died Twyla Elizabeth "Tees" Hendry
(1928-1997), social activistSeptember 11, 1997 - Died Cheryl Marlene Davidson (1951-1997),
Lawyer and Judge in ManitobaSeptember 25, 1997 - Died
Hélène Baillargeon-Coté (1919-1997),
Entertained children on TV in Bilingual format well before her time.
December 21, 1997 - Died Marion Powell ( 1997),
medical doctor and leader in public information. for Birth Control.

1998

March 2, 1998 - Louise Frechette (1946-
) was the 1st person to be appointed to the position of
Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. She held this
position until March 31, 2006.

May
2, 1998 - The Preston Rivulettes woman hockey team is
inducted as an inaugural entry into the Cambridge Hall of Fame,
Cambridge Ontario. Source: Cambridge Hall of Fame.

July
1998 - A Human Rights Tribunal concludes that the Public Service
Alliance of Canada ( the largest union of federal public servants) has a right to call for pay equity. As a
result the largest payment for equal pay for equal work in Canada is
made to several groups including librarians and clerks working for
the federal government. The groups receiving the back pay for
equality were groups dominated by women and the back pay was
retro-active for 13 years.

1998 - Stacey Dales (1979- ) of
Brockville, Ontario is selected as a member of the 1st women's All
American Basketball event after her junior year at Oklahoma
University, U.S.A. She will be a member of the Canadian Olympic team
in 2000.

1998 - Lieutenant-Colonel Karen McCrimmon is appointed
Commander of 429 Transport Squadron in Trenton, Ontario becoming the
1st woman to command an Air Force squadron. Source:
National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet.
Online (Accessed March 2014)

June 22, 1998, - the National Library of Canada
launches a project featuring historical and biographical information
about women who have made significant contributions to Canadian
History.

November 5, 1998 - A study looks at housework in Nova
Scotia and establishes it is worth at least $8.5 billion a year.
Source: The Economic Value of Unpaid Housework and
Childcare in Nova Scotia. by Dr. Ronald Coleman. GPI Atlantic,
1998. Online accessed June 11, 2011.
1998 - There is a national uproar when the Province of
Alberta attempts to cap financial award settlements in cases of
illegal sterilization Source:
Herstory : a Canadian women's Calendar 2000 Page 72.

1998 - Vivienne Poy(1941- )
is the1st Canadian of Chinese descent to be appointed to
the Senate of Canada.
Source: personal interview. 1998 - Sarah McLachlan
(1868- ),
receives the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award for her imitative in founding the
all-female Lilith Fair music festival and her efforts to advance
careers of women in music.

1998 - Catherine Side is the
1st woman in Canada to
graduate with a doctorate in Women's Studies
(York University, Toronto).
Source A Chronology of the
development of women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic
Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/PAR-L/chronology1.htm (accessed April 28, 2003.
)

1998 -Constance R. Glube (1931- ) is the 1st Canadian woman to hold the position
of a provincial Chief Justice in the Court of Appeal . She is
appointed in the province of Nova Scotia. Source:
Protocol Office, Order of Nova Scotia Online Accessed June 2011.

1998 - Nova Scotia Arts Council Creates the Portia White Prize to be awarded
annually to recognize cultural and artistic excellence of a
provincial artist.

June 3, 1999 - Claudette Boyer (1938- ) is the first Franco-Ontarian woman to be elected to the federal
government. Source: women in Ottawa: Mentors and
milestones http:womeninottawa.blogspot.come accessed June 2011.
August 1999 - July 2008 - Maryann Elizabeth Francis
serves as the 1st woman permanent director of the Nova Scotia Human
Rights Commission.
Source: Office of Nova Scotia Lieutenant-Governor online. Accessed
June 2011.

1999 -
Canadian women who have a university degree and work full time all
year earned 69% of what men with a university degree earned.
Source: Statistics Canada, Income Trends in Canada, 1980-1999

1999 -
Eaton's department stores goes bankrupt. 13,000 loose jobs.

1999 - Ione Christensen(1933- )
former Commissioner of the Yukon Territories is appointed to the Senate of Canada.

1999 -
The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell(1947- )
is the Chair (1999-2003) of the Council of Women Work.
(The Council's membership consists of women who have held the office
of President or Prime Minister in their own country.)Source: Club de Madrid Kim Campbell
www.clubmadrid.org (accessed
January 2006)

October 18, 1999 -
The Women are Persons Monument is unveiled in Calgary Alberta by
Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. “I
believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great
race of woman than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better
adapted to make a great country.”
Source: Speech on the unveiling of the Women are Persons Monument,
Calgary Alberta, October 18, 1999
December 9, 1999 - Lois Hole(1929-2005) is
appointed as Alberta's 15th Lieutenant Governor
Source:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/abpolitics/people/lt-hole.html
March 2003

1999 -The Canadian
Women's Mentor Awards holds its inauguration event in Calgary, Alberta. It
is sponsored by the Globe and Mail newspaper and the YWCA's across
Canada.Source: The first
Canadian Women's mentor Awards held in Calgary
Http://stenographers.com/entrepreneur/articles.html#top (accessed
July 2005)

1999 - Dr Noni MacDonald is the first woman in Canada to
be Dean of a Canadian Medical School at Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Source: The Kids Book of Canadian
Firsts by Valerie Wyatt (Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2001)

1999 - Thanadelthur(Ca 1717), an
Aboriginal woman who played a major role in establishing the fur trade
in the 18th century Canadian north, is designated an National
Historical Person by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board.

1999 - The Canada Supreme Court rules unanimously that
British Columbia forest firefighter Tawney Mclorin had been
discriminated against by a requirement of run 2. k in 11 minutes and
ordered her reinstated. Source: "Fit to be a
firefighter" Vancouver Sun April 2, 2006 Online
accessed June 2013.

1999 - The Historic Sites and Monuments Board erects an historic plaque for
National Historic Person, Dr. Jenny Trout
(1841-1921), the first woman licensed doctor in Canada, in
Kingston, Ontario. 1999 - SchoolNet, originally established in 1993, goes on-line allowing
Canadian School children to connect electronically to the world. Source: The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts by Valerie
Wyatt (Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2001) pg. 24. 1999 -
Men who worked full time in a managerial position in New Brunswick
earned $51,726 per year on average, while women earn $29,365 on
average.
Source: Statistics Canada, Income Trends in Canada, 1980-1999

Deaths 1999: 1999 - DiedMary Ainsworth
(1913-1999), psychologist
1999 - Died
Stella W. Tate (1922-1999), 1st Occupational therapist in Canadian
Navy, 1999 - Died Jean Bruce Dawson
(1912-1999), nurse by training she became an artist.1999 -
Died Evalyn Bowen (1911-1999), stage actress who organized and
directed the first all Negro dram group in Canada. 1999 - Died Eileen Tallman Sufrin (1913-1999) a social
activist who led Eaton's Employees in an attempt to unionize. 1999 -
Died Anne Szumigalski (1922-1999), poet and winner of the Governor
General's Award in poetry 1995.January 21, 1999 - Died Vera Lyla Helen Ayling (1906-1999), journalist and author February 15, 1999 - Died
Margaret Isobel Drynan
(1945-1999) musician & composer.
February 25,
1999 - Died Blanche Margaret
Meagher (1911-
1999), pioneer Canadian diplomat.
May 4, 1999 - Died May Kearney
(1924?-1999) professional figure skater. May 16, 1999 - Died Mary Kustra (1925-1999), played with the All American Girls
Professional Baseball League August 25, 1999 - Died Hilda Ranscombe (1913-1999) hockey
player and member of Canadian Sport Hall of Fame.
September 4, 1999 - Died Anna Afanasyevna Bhatjkin ( -
1999), medical doctor, cardiac specialist. December 13, 1999 - Died
Alice Katrina Loewen Chambers (1937-1999), scientist and community
activist for the environment.